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Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
Sandy Hotchkiss · Free Press Pages: 215 Format: Paperback
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In this groundbreaking book -- the first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade -- clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships.... |
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Jon Katz · Ballantine Pages: 209 Format: Hardcover
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In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge... |
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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
Mary Pipher · Riverhead Books; 1 edition Pages: 328 Format: Paperback
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There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws. They are living longer, but in a culture that has come to worship youth--a culture in which families have dispersed, communities have broken down, and older... |
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Living the Good Long Life: A Practical Guide to Caring for Yourself and Others
Martha Stewart · Clarkson Potter; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Martha Stewart's engaging handbook for living your healthiest life after 40 - with expertise from doctors and specialists on eating, exercise, wellness, home, and organizing, as well as caring for others. Martha Stewart's Living the Good Long Life is a practical guide unlike any other:... |
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Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief
Pauline Boss · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementiaNearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques,... |
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How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
Mortimer J. Adler · Open Court Pages: 530 Format: Paperback
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Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?",... |
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The Ethical Project
Philip Kitcher · Harvard University Press Pages: 422 Format: Hardcover
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Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical... |
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Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Edmund Fawcett · Princeton University Press Pages: 468 Format: Print book
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Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many... |
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Capture: A Theory of the Mind
David A. M.D. Kessler · Harper Wave Pages: 432 Format: Print book
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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad... |
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs · Convergent Books Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan... |
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
JORDAN PETERSON · Random House Canada Pages: 409 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge... |
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